Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=4+4294941262+4294966873 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715228 In the midst of epic, violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; even after he discovers she is married, he goes to extreme lengths to win her love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684828 This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675715 A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a mans murder and the rape of his wife. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema, and a commanding new star. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1374610 Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their familys kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. A graceful study of a family at a turning point in history, and a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208714 The story is based on the tabloid sensation of 1936, the fatal love affair of Sada Abe, a former geisha turned maid, and Kichizo Yoshida, the owner of the Tokyo ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) at which she worked. Abandoning his wife and his business, Kichizo gives himself up to two weeks of dissipation with Sada at a nearby inn, which climaxes in sadomasochistic love games--and his strangulation and mutilation. Kichizo is tired of life, of the militarism that has everywhere suppressed Eros in favor of Thanatos, and he and Sada are escaping, protesting, testing physical and psychological limits, while resisting a social order that condemns their actions and their very being. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579854 Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968066 1895, Japan. In a small village, Seki is the wife of the litter carrier Gisaburo. Seki has an affair with Toyiji, a man twenty-six years younger her. Toyiji becomes jealous of Gisaburo and plots with Seki to kill him. After Gisaburo has had plenty of sake to drink and goes to bed, the two strangle Gisaburo and dump his body inside a well in the woods. Seki tells the locals that Gisaburo moved to Tokyo to work. Finally, three years later, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, Gisaburos ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate his disappearance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=766921 To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, the wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978745 A low-level swordsman decides to live in the wild after being betrayed by his former comrades. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968027 Spy networks gather information for the clans supporting and opposing the shogunate.--Www.kitparker.com. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579853 Volunteering as a comfort woman on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Naritas direct subordinate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1128329 In the shady black markets and bombed-out hotels of post-World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1207435 In this stylized dramatization of the puppet theater play, Jihei abandons business, family and self respect for a passionate love affair with a geisha whose freedom he cannot afford. As the world closes in upon him, he finds his only course of action to be death together with the lover he is unable to obtain in life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=878974 Reformed killer Tetsu wanders around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he is called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This edition of the film includes an interview with the director.